Neighbour Quotes

• Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

  

  Epictetus
  • Friends
  • Citizens
  • Neighbour

• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Way
  • Wise

• Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

  

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
  • Faith
  • Eternity
  • Faults

• There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

  

  John Calvin
  • Purpose
  • Rule
  • Possess

• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Sometimes
  • Trading
  • Allies

• Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Nose
  • Neighbour
  • Schoolboy

• When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Door
  • Neighbour
  • Pray To God

• Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour.

  

  Francis William Aston
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Energy

• That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Remember
  • Laughter
  • Neighbour

• Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

  

  Athanasius
  • Love
  • Kindness
  • Neighbour

• Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Human being
  • Neighbour
  • Self-Love

• A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Oblivion
  • Neighbour

• Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.

  

  Calvin Seerveld
  • Hell
  • Horror
  • Christians

• We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Revolution
  • Christ
  • Poor

• How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Thoughts
  • Sign
  • Neighbour

• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Peaceful
  • Aggression
  • Eastern

• But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blowing of the wind across the joyous fields.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Poetry
  • Fields
  • Variety

• All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • War
  • Chance
  • Disaster

• Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Job
  • Stories
  • Neighbour

• Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at least a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Satisfaction
  • Blessings

• A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Machines
  • Neighbour
  • Tweet

• Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Soul
  • Distance
  • Solitude

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